Quiñones Exhibits His Point of View

Different perspectives on daily life on the island, and especially in the city of portals, were displayed in 23 artworks this May 16 by artisan Pedro Quiñones Triana at UNEAC's Azagaya gallery.

Quiñones, a leading Morón native of the craft of collage and work with diverse textures on paper, recognizes himself as an artist who wants to share his way of seeing life with his friends and fellow citizens. As he told Televisión Avileña, "my greatest joy in this exhibition is having reunited with so many old friends, who have already told me their opinions about these paintings. And knowing what so many others think of my work is very gratifying."

Quiñones's works achieve that discursive balance between form and content. In creating his collages, he seems to be creating a mirror of reality without the intention of becoming a chronicler of his time.

However, these pieces, created at different times in the artist's life, could be considered spokespersons for a generation and a watershed in the visual arts in Ciego de Ávila. With the mass exodus of artists who in the past were a reference for students at the Academy of Fine Arts and for painters, Quiñones has been almost forced to rethink his work and follow the path that harsh reality is imposing on us.
Therefore, nothing escapes his reflection and critical acuity: gender violence, myths, religion, dual monetary systems, family crises and crises of all kinds, the current state of electricity, pandemics, and much more, are all being portrayed and analyzed by him.

Nothing seems to escape his power of synthesis and reasoning.

The opening of this solo exhibition was attended by several artists and writers, directors of cultural institutions, the AHS (Academic Association of Higher Education), and the presidency of the provincial UNEAC (National Institute of Statistics and Geography).

Pedro Quiñones, who is also vice president of the municipal committee of the Morón UNEAC (National Institute of Statistics and Geography), expressed his gratitude in his welcoming remarks for the text of the catalog, "written with such affection by my good friend and fellow countryman, Eldy Mariño." The presentation was brilliantly read by the president of the Ciego de Ávila UNEAC (National Institute of Statistics and Geography), broadcaster Yudeisy Viera Miranda.

Quiñones's Punto de Vista exhibition will be open to the public at the Azagaya gallery for two months.
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